Wednesday, January 15, 2014

We skim them so you don't have to, unless of course you'd like to (update: see this Long Now blogpost for some one-line synopses.). Here's a Readers Digest smorgasbord of interesting ones, though with no friendly indexing this year.

Monday, January 14, 2013

But, just like last year, the outcome is needlessly disappointing: the answers are long-winded, making the endeavor one that's writer-friendly in the short term, but not reader-friendly, thus not writer-friendly in the long term, if the writer wants to be read.

Suggestion: Edge should direct its great thinkers(tm) to submit their answer in a web form that has a hard limit on text length.

Another advantage to using such a form would be that you could also send out a more general invitation, so that self-selectors could also offer answers; then a volunteer or staffer could pick out gems from among this pool of responses.